Church Congress International Congress
Published: 2018-03-03
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Excerpt from The Official Report of the Church Congress: Held at Norwich, October, 1895 A comparison of the programmes of 1865 and 1895 still further marks the growth of the Congress. In 186 5 eleven meetings (six being sectional) were held on three days; in 1895, twenty-six meetings (fifteen being sectional) were held on four days. It appears to have been an unwritten law of Congress in its early days to limit the number of papers and prepared addresses to four, viz., two readers and two speakers. In recent years the programme has been heavily weighted with invited readers and speakers; and, mainly in consequence of this, the discussions of the subjects by voluntary speakers have often been very limited. A good deal of criticism has been directed against this comparatively recent innovation, and Subjects' Committees in future years will be wise if they aim at meeting objections which have been very emphatically expressed, and are undoubtedly widely felt. Again, in recent years the subjects selected have been elaborately dissected and subdivided; whereas in earlier years they were briefly designated in general terms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.